Date :: 27th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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27th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) India is on the 4th position on latest ICC Test ranking as South Africa is on the 1st position.
( 2 ) The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has proposed setting up of two Missile Test Ranges at Rutland Islands of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Nagayalanka in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. ( 3 ) Economic Survey 2012- 2013 show that India lost 10% share in global BPO mkt to China and Brazil in 5 years which is 20-billion industry.
( 4 ) Cyber fraud pertaining to ATMs, debit and credit cards and internet banking costs banks like ICICI, HDFC, Citibank and others 130 cr in 3 years.
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Date :: 26th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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26th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Goldman Sachs cut its 2013 gold price forecast to $1,600 an ounce from $1,810 an ounce.
( 2 ) Indian Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal told the losses from railways is estimated at Rs 24,600 crore for the current financial year.
( 3 ) Indian Railways plan Rs 4,000 cr investment for coal mines connectivity.
( 4 ) Over 60,000 ATMs to be opened in rural areas in 2 years according to the government.
( 5 ) Facebook developing "cold storage" facility in the US to archive all the messages, photos and other postings that its over billion users do not need every day but want to retain for future reference.
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Oscar Awards 2013 Winner List : :

Oscar awards 2013 winner list ::
*Best Cinematography:"Life of Pi" – Claudio Miranda.
*Best Costume Design: "Anna Karenina" - Jacqueline Durran.
*Best Foreign Language Film: "Amour".
*Best Supporting Actress:Anne Hathaway – "Les Misérables" as Fantine.
*Best Editing: "Argo" - William Goldenberg.
*Best Sound Editing: "Skyfall" - Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers,"Zero Dark Thirty" - Paul N.J. Ottosson.
*Best Sound Mixing:"Les Misérables" - Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes.
*Best Documentary Feauture: "Searching for Sugar Man".
*Best Animated Feature: "Brave".
*Best Visual Effects: "Life of Pi".
*Best Supporting Actor:Christoph Waltz – "Django Unchained" as Dr. King Schultz.
*Best Original Score: "Life of Pi" – Mychael Danna.
*Best Original Song: "Skyfall" from Skyfall – Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth.
*Best Writing Adapted Screenplay: "Argo" - Chris Terrio.
*Best Writing Original Screenplay:"Django Unchained" - Quentin Tarantino.
*Best Live Action Short Film :"Curfew" – Shawn Christensen.
*Best Documentary Short: "Inocente".
*Best Animated Short Film:"Paperman" – John Kahrs.
*Best Director:Ang Lee – "Life of Pi".
*Best Actor:Daniel Day-Lewis – "Lincoln" as Abraham Lincoln.
*Best Actress:Jennifer Lawrence – "Silver Linings Playbook" as Tiffany Maxwell.
*Best Picture: "Argo".
*Best Production Design:"Lincoln" – Rick Carter and Jim Erickson.
*Best Cinematography:"Life of Pi" – Claudio Miranda.
*Best Makeup and Hairstyling:"Les Misérables" – Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell.
*Best Costume Design:"Anna Karenina" – Jacqueline Durran.
*Best Film Editing:"Argo" – William Goldenberg.
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Date :: 25th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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25th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) India with the help of PSLV-C20 rocket successfully launched Indo-French oceanographic study satellite 'SARAL' and six foreign mini and micro spacecrafts in space from SRIHARIKOTA.
( 2 ) Visa issuance to Indian students by the US doubled in 2012.
( 3 ) Oscars awards 2013: Christoph Waltz wins best supporting actor for Django Unchained,
Brave wins Best Animated Feature,
Anne Hathaway wins Best Supporting Actress for Les Miserables,
Les Miserables wins best sound mixing;
Skyfall,Zero Dark Thirty tie for sound editing,
Daniel Day-Lewis wins Best Actor Oscar for 'Lincoln',
Searching for Sugar Man wins best documentary,
Ang Lee wins Best Director for Life of Pi,
Jennifer Lawrence wins Best Actress Oscar for 'Silver Linings', Ben Affleck's 'Argo' wins best picture Oscar.
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Date :: 24th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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24th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Blas Iglesias Fernandez became the first foreign coach in India to be awarded the Dronacharya Award along with Yashvir Singh coach of two-time Olympic medallist wrestler Sushil Kumar.
( 2 ) The Indian squash team won a gold and a silver medal at the 16th Asian Junior Team Championships in seoul.
( 3 ) Biggest ever field of its history for cycling being created so that 28 countries can be represented by 567 cyclists in track and road racing event named Hero Cycles 33rd senior and the 20th junior Asian cycling championship will be held from March 7 to 17 in New Delhi.
( 4 ) Gujarat's Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) grew only 8.5 per cent in 2011-12.
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Date :: 23rd February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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23rd February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Mobile connections with Rs 20 balance cannot be deactivated according to new guidelines by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
( 2 ) Indain Government is expecting Rs 43,000 cr from spectrum sale at base price.
( 3 ) In India 436 lives lost during clinical trials of drugs in 2012.
( 4 ) Indian teams enter finals of Asian Junior Squash championships in Seoul.
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Date :: 22nd February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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22nd February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Wipro's billionaire chairman Azim Premji transfers 300 mn Wipro shares worth Rs 12,300 cr to an irrevocable trust.
( 2 ) Facebook and Google joint to launch new $3 million science prize which is more than double the value of the Nobel Prize.
( 3 ) India's GDP is estimated to grow at 5 per cent in 2012-13 which is lowest since 2003-04.
( 4 ) 10,431 mw of renewable energy capacity added during last 3 years against a target of 9623 mw.
( 5 ) States show high budget allocation but spend less on SC/ST according to study done by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, a Delhi-based advocacy group.
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Date :: 21st February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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21st February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) T S Vijayan today appointed is the new chairman of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA).
( 2 ) Indians consider Wi-Fi, free breakfast a must in hotels accommodationa ccording to a Hotels.com survey.
( 3 ) AirAsia to invest up to USD 60 mn in airline venture with Tata.
( 4 ) Wheat exports may rise by 23% to 8 million tonnes this year.
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Date :: 20thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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20th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Delhi's "Connaught Place" has been ranks 4th in the list of most expensive office locations in the world according to property consultant Cushman and wakefield.
( 2 ) Virat Kohli appointed captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore for IPL season 2013.
( 3 ) In India there has been lowest number of credit card fraud cases registered according to Visa Group.
( 4 ) E-payments trough credit and debit cards and other mode of paperless transactions have added around USD 1.5 billion to the country's GDP during 2008-12 period according to Visa-Moody's Analytics study.com.
( 5 ) InterContinental Hotels Group signed 13 new hotels in India in 2012.
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Date :: 19thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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19th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Indian Ocean security taskforce to be launched in Canberra Australia next month.
( 2 ) Microsoft shifting all Hotmail accounts to Outlook.com.
( 3 ) Non-performing assets (NPAs) or Bad loans of listed banks rise by 50% in first 9 months.
( 4 ) AirAsia to start Kuala Lumpur to Kolkata daily flights from 25 February.
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Date :: 18thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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18th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Indian government to connect 2,50,000 gram panchayats in the country with a fibre optic network with the project cost of Rs 21,000 crore.
( 2 ) Wipro now will manage Mumbai international airport for next 10 years.
( 3 ) China took control of Pakistan's Gwadar port increasing Indian concern.
( 4 ) India will earn Rs 1,000 crore foreign exchange through coir pith export.
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Date :: 17thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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17th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) India may be the world's largest arms importer, after spending over $50 billion to acquire arms over the last decade.
( 2 ) World's highest rail bridge will be bulit by Indian Railways on Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir by 2016.
( 3 ) Women are more prone to jealousy on Facebook according to researchers from the University of Alabama.
( 4 ) India had an American treasury bills of worth $ 57.9 billion in December 2012.
( 5 ) Indian tea exports have registered a decline of about 23 million kg last year over 2011.
( 6 ) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh demands Rs 7565 crore special package for central government.
( 7 ) Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) infused a net amount of USD 3.95 billion (about Rs 21,058 crore) in Indian equities in February.
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Date :: 16thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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16th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) NABARD has sanctioned Rs 235.63 crore to Assam for projects under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF).
( 2 ) Japan-based CGC group of companies has offered a tie up to Anand Kumar, who runs the Super 30 programme in Bihar for free residential school in India to groom students for IIT entrance exam .
( 3 ) XLRI's Jamshedpur final placements see median salary of Rs 16.2 lakh per annum .
( 4 ) Japan has launched a study of carbon emission reduction in the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor to facilitate the Railways to earn carbon credits in the world market.
( 5 ) India will host the second tri- lateral dialogue with US and Afghanistan on 19 february .
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Date :: 15thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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15th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) The world’s tallest statute of Mahatma Gandhi having height of 70 feet was on Friday unveiled in patna ( Bihar ).
( 2 ) Indo-French satellite 'SARAL' to be launched through PSLV-C20 from the spaceport of Sriharikota on February 25. .
( 3 ) India's foreign exchange reserves went down to $294.54 billion as of Feb. 8, compared with $295.16 billion in the previous week according to Reserve Bank of India.
( 4 ) Recent Arctic summer sea-ice volume that is left now is only a fifth of what it was in 1980.
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Date :: 14thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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14th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) India has been ranked 14th on budget transparency basis out of 100 countires according to the 'Open Budget Survey 2012'.
( 2 ) IPL franchise Mumbai Indians is among the world's 150 most valuable sports team brands according to a list topped by English football giants Manchester United, which has a brand value of $852 millions.
( 3 ) India Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for the month of January dipped to a four-year low of 6.62%.
( 4 ) India imported record 11.57 lakh tonnes of edible oil in January.
( 5 ) India, France conclude $6 bn deal on Surface to Air Missile.
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Date :: 12thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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12th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Kerala becomes first state to launches programme to generate over 10 MW of solar power through roof-top systems.
( 2 ) International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) leaders have dropped wrestling for the 2020 Games.
( 3 ) Top e-commerce sites report 50 pc sales coming from tier-2 and tier-3 cities.
( 4 ) In Budget 2013 Nasscom demands national cyber security from the government.
( 5 ) Punjab & Sind Bank to get Rs 140-cr fund support from government.
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Date :: 11thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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11th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Sitar legend Ravi Shankar wins best world music album posthumous Grammy.
( 2 ) Alice Amos scored an incredible 162 in a test of the high IQ society Mensa which is even higher than physicist Stephen Hawking.
( 3 ) Pope Benedict to step down on Feb 28 due to weakening health.
( 4 ) IIM Calcutta, XLRI become members of Graduate Management Admission Council.
( 5 ) Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is all set to launch an educational programme for sex workers and their children in Gujarat.
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Date :: 10thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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10th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) NASA has announced plans to launch the world's largest solar sail in 2014.
( 2 ) The "SARAL-Altika" satellite, a joint project of the space agencies of India and France is ready to launch from Sriharikota, that can complement the observations of the seas made by current satellites.
( 3 ) Global coffee exports at record 113 million bags in 2012.
( 4 ) India's foodgrain export likely to be $40 billion in 2012-13.
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Date :: 9thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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9th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) invented super computer"Param Yuva II" it has been upgraded to 524 teraflops, about 10 times faster than the present facility.
( 2 ) Air India will now have a new in- flight bi-lingual magazine called 'Shubh Yatra', replacing 'Swagat'.
( 3 ) Competition panel fines BCCI Rs 52.24 crore over 'unfair' IPL deals.
( 4 ) Afzal Guru hanged and buried in Tihar jail.
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Date :: 7thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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7th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Pornographic,gambling websites safer, users fall prey to cyber crime via search engines and ads according to technology giant Cisco.
( 2 ) Vivek Bhardwaj an Indian-origin man who wrote the code line in new BlackBerry 10 software.
( 3 ) Beijing ninth worst polluted city in China.
( 4 ) Dubai to get World's highest theatre venue to be launched in March on the 42nd and 43rd floor of the Shangri La hotel on Dubai's Sheikh Zayed Road.
( 5 ) India's biggest shopping district Theagaraya Nagar in Chennai to get a retail makeover to generate more revenues.
( 6 ) World's largest prime number discovered with 17 million digits,Curtis Cooper from the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg made the finding as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS).
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Date :: 6thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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6th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Mumbai and Karachi - were the cheapest cities in the world to live followed by New Delhi, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) worldwide cost of living index.
( 2 ) Unmukt Chand the captain of India's under-19 cricket World Cup 2012 winning team is the new brand ambassador for its 'HCL ME' tablet range.
( 3 ) World Gold Council announces new managing director Somasundaram PR in India.
( 4 ) Anil Ambani and Cyrus Mistry are now the members of advisory group on power so The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) will provide all assistance to the Group for its smooth functioning.
( 5 ) Aircel in partnership with ICICI Bank has launched mobile banking service, Mobile Money, running on Visa's mobile managed service.
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Date :: 5thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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5th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Days after The New York Times and Wall Street Journal said Chinese hackers had infiltrated its computers and hacked email accounts of its reporters Google has updated its 'Good to Know' website with the latest information on web security and threats.
( 2 ) The World Book Fair began in New Delhi.
( 3 ) Asia and one of the world's most important military aviation exhibitions will start at Yelahanka Air Force Station Banglore, from February 6 to 11.
( 4 ) WishTel has launched a seven-inch Android tablet called Ira Icon that has a Hindi user interface.
( 5 ) Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) account owner may get 8.5 per cent return on their investments during 2012-13.
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Date :: 4thFebruary 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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4th February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Punjab's per capita income near Rs 1 lakh mark but it is a bad news from farm sector according to Economic and Statistical Wing of the state finance department.
( 2 ) Adhir Choudhury inaugurates new rail station in Purulia,West Bangal.
( 3 ) Enforcement Directorate (ED) has given a penalty notice of approximately Rs 100 crore against IPL team Rajasthan Royals.
( 4 ) Goa Institute of Management (GIM) appoints Sunil Rai as the new director.
( 5 ) Scientists say they have found the 500-year-old remains of England’s King Richard III under a parking lot in the city of Leicester.
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Date :: 3rd February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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3rd February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) For IPL season six Mumbai Indians bought Glenn Maxwell for Rs 5.3 crore and Ricky Ponting was bought for base price of Rs 2.1 crore.
( 2 ) Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has been granted Maharatna status by the government.
( 3 ) LIC cuts stake in 27 Nifty firms, sells shares worth Rs 8k crore.
( 4 ) Indian President signs ordinance to effect changes in laws against sexual crimes.
( 5 ) Film "Vishwaroopam" set to hit theatres as Tamil Nadu govt revokes ban on film.
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Date :: 2nd February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::

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2nd February 2013 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) Indian Railways needs Rs 38,000 crore as budgetary support from Finance Ministry.
( 2 ) Growth in Indian economy will be higher in India in 2013 than 2012 according to Ellen Kullman, Chairman & CEO, DuPont.
( 3 ) More then 250000 twitter accounts have been hacked by an Anonymous hackers.
( 4 ) This year India to be No 1 market for US Exim Bank.
( 5 ) Service tax evasion of Rs 9,800-cr detected in April-December '12 in India.
( 6 ) China will be top 5 mobile handset makers in world by 2014 as per Gartner.
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Current Affair Of February 2013

Current Affair Of February 2013.
1st February 2013 ::
( 1 ) Ten Indian-American school students have made it to the 40 finalists of the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search for the year 2013.
( 2 ) Oil India's Rs 3,000 cr share sale over subscribed with indicative price bid price is seen at Rs 516.22 per share.
( 3 ) Indian cricket team captian Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been appointed as vice-president of India Cements, a company which is headed by BCCI President N Srinivasan.
( 4 ) Morgan Stanley Chief Executive James Gorman who runs the sixth-largest US bank, will receive a base salary of $1.5 million in 2013, up from $800,000 the previous year.
( 5 ) About 55% Indian-Americans own house in US according to a report by Homeownership report.
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